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Councilors press mayor on street striping delays, speed cushions and missing storm-drain covers
Summary
Council members pressed city leadership about contractor delays in street striping, requested speed cushions near a Collegeville community center and raised widespread problems with storm-drain inlet covers and clogged drains.
Several Birmingham City Council members used the April 15 meeting to press the mayor and staff for action on three infrastructure concerns: missing speed cushions on a neighborhood street, delayed street striping after repaving, and storm-drain inlet covers that are missing or not seated properly.
Councilor Valerie Abbott asked Mayor Randall L. Woodson to expedite installation of speed cushions on 29th Street North near a community center in Collegeville, saying children cross that street frequently and motorists are speeding. “I would hate for a kid to actually experience that and then we react,” Abbott said.
Mayor Woodson said he would follow up with the…
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